ZIP 07017 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Essex County, New Jersey's ZIP 07017 registers 25/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (55/100), construction/permit lag (35/100), institutional ownership (20/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (8/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100)). The latent-versus-live split is 55/100 structural and 2/100 already moving.

The expansion-phase market in 07017 posted values that rose 6.0% over the year, and 30% higher over three years (phase confidence 43/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

The typical home is worth about $374,800 (5.2× income). The ZIP holds roughly 16,685 housing units. At $61,552, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Around 41% of renters are cost-burdened. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 41/100. The vacancy rate is 4.5%. Around 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 31% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 17.4% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Population is roughly 40,809 with a median age of 36.

On balance 07017 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.